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05/2014
In this Issue:
LEAD Pakistan launched a research study on mainstreaming
CBA in Pakistan
Climate change: ‘Media needs to step up to teach people
about environment issues’
IPCC Climate Change report warns of accelerated emissions,
but suggested reduction pathways
MTD updates readers with developments at
LEAD related to its three programs: Climate
Change, Social Capital Development and Environmental Management woven through five core
competencies: capacity building and research,
network-ing and partnerships, community empowerment, public policy engagement and
knowledge man-agement. LEAD wishes to learn,
reflect and grow; and is looking forward to your
comments and suggestions.
Receding Glaciers in Pakistan
Seed banks help communities adapt to climate change
LEAD Pakistan accredited as a member to the NCCP Implementation Committee
Join us:
The buzz about the bus
Can Pakistan learn from Nepal?
Accepting new applications
for National Alliance for Climate Action (NACA)
Flipping the Finance Coin: What’s the 50-50 Proposition?
Coming too fast-water shortages and climate changes
Whither CBA relevance-do more!
Five Day Training on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate
Change Adaptation’
The IPCC AR-5: What Does The Future Hold?
LEAD Pakistan and USAID join hands to empower Indigenous
Community Conserved Areas for Wildlife Conservation in
Chitral
Adil Najam Named Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies
A proud moment! LEAD Pakistan Fellow Rafay Alam named
Yale World Fellow 2014
Climate Change
LEAD Pakistan launched a research study on mainstreaming CBA in Pakistan
LEAD Pakistan has launched a research study on Mainstreaming
Community Based Climate Change Adaptation in Pakistan to provide a framework for policy institutions. The framework is intended to encourage institutions to create a political environment
that allows communities to lead the process of adaptation as well
as development. For adaptation to occur successfully, it has to
take place with the right set of incentives and costs for communities. It also requires that ecosystem biodiversity be preserved
since removing critical species from an ecosystem, such as mangroves from coastal areas, can often make regions less resilient to
climate change. To formally launch the study, authored by Dr.
Aneel Salman, LEAD Pakistan invited researchers and practitioners in the field of climate change adaptation to a roundtable conference on May 29th, 2014. The conference was held to discuss
the shortcomings and strengths of the study in order to determine
the best way forward in terms of devising recommendations on
CBA for parliamentarians. To get a copy of this study, send an
email to Ms. Asifa Bhatti at [email protected]
Climate change: ‘Media needs to step up to teach people about environment issues’
In a three-day training course on the ‘Basics of Climate Change for Coastal Areas of Pakistan’ organised by LEAD Pakistan, former federal minister Javed Jabbar and other experts said that media has played a vital role in raising awareness on climate change and environment related issues
but it needs to do more as the people rely on it to get their information, urged environmentalists. Read more
IPCC Climate Change report warns of accelerated emissions, but suggested reduction pathways
Dr. Qamar uz Zaman Chaudhry, an eminent climate scientist and Advisor LEAD Pakistan on Climate Change, summarises the messages of the IPCC’s latest report, and draws out its implications for Pakistan. The latest report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group-III, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, shows that global greenhouse
gases emissions have gone up to unprecedented levels despite global reduction efforts. Read
more
Receding Glaciers in Pakistan
Watch a short documentary made by LEAD Pakistan Fellow Saleem Shaikh on "Receding Glaciers
in Pakistan". According to him the glacier melting comes as a great threat to Pakistan as it would
result in the inundation of thousands of acres in the northern areas and displace hundreds. The
documentary was done under the media grant by the Kathmandu Based International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development's (ICIMOD) HICAP programme. Watch Video
Seed banks help communities adapt to climate change
LEAD Pakistan Fellow Zofeen Ebrahim writes about the community seed banks in Nepal who are
helping farmers preserve local biodiversity and prepare for more erratic weather conditions.
These local seed varieties are more drought and disease resistant and require less pesticides
than genetically modified crops. Read more
LEAD Pakistan accredited as a member to the NCCP Implementation Committee
CEO LEAD Pakistan Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and Advisor LEAD Pakistan on Climate Change Dr. Qamar
uz Zaman Chaudhry has been appointed as member to the National Climate Change Policy Implementation Committee (NCCPIC) for a term of three years. The committee, Chaired by the Minister of Climate Change, will meet biannually to ensure effective NCCP and action plans implementation and to oversee progress. The committee will also report the status of implementation
of the policy to the Prime Minister's Committee on Climate Change.
The buzz about the bus
LEAD Pakistan Fellow Afia Salam writes about Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Project and its its
possible negative impacts. According to planners and environmentalists, It is extremely important to ensure that if this project is to go through, then it should be environmentally sustainable,
economically feasible, and socially equitable for the country to really reap its benefits. Read
more
Can Pakistan learn from Nepal?
Zofeen Ebrahim, LEAD Pakistan Fellow for Cohort 14 writes about how farmers in Nepal are getting benefits by adopting the shift in the monsoon season and changed their decade old practices. Read More
Flipping the Finance Coin: What’s the 50-50 Proposition?
Arif Rahman, LEAD Pakistan's Climate Change Coordinator writes about the recently held CBA 8
conference which reflects how countries can capitalized funding opportunities available at the international level. Read More
Coming too fast-water shortages and climate changes
Dr. Pervaiz Amir reflects on how Pakistan and other South Asian countries can capitalized funding
opportunities available at the international level. Read More
Whither CBA relevance-do more!
In the first of a series of blogs from the 8th CBA conference, Dr. Pervaiz Amir reflects on how
CBA needs to use mainstream ideas and practices to have a transformational future. Read More
Five Day Training on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation’
Recognizing the importance of the need for capacity building for DRR practitioners, under funding
from Oxfam Novib through its implementing partner, Doaba Foundation, LEAD Pakistan conducted a five day training on ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction’ in Islamabad, for 25 practitioners from various grass-root level CSO’s from Sindh, Punjab and Khyber
Pukhtunkhwa. The objective of the training was to enhance knowledge, build technical capacity
and skills through training the participants about Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk
Reduction. This would be accompanied by educating and preparing participants in disaster preparedness and mitigation measures that reduce vulnerability. The sensitization of these practitioners on best practices and disaster resilient methodologies and techniques for adaptation, in order to aid them to integrate climate change adaptation into their DRR work, was seen as one of
the important outcomes of the training. Read More
The IPCC AR-5: What Does The Future Hold?
LEAD Pakistan is in the process of preparing a synthesis report of the IPCC AR-5, concentrating
on what Pakistan specific findings exist in the report and what they mean for the immediate and
long-term future of the country. To this end, a roundtable was organized at LEAD Pakistan to
present some of the findings and to initiate a dialogue with renowned scholars and experts in the
field of Climate Change. Read More
Other Updates
LEAD Pakistan and USAID join hands to empower Indigenous Community Conserved Areas for Wildlife Conservation in Chitral
LEAD Pakistan has signed a one year project with USAID to empower Indigenous Community
Conserved Areas for Wildlife Conservation in Chitral. The aim of the project is to map, capacitate,
network and identify enabling conditions, best practices and lessons linked to successful community-based wildlife management in Chitral. The intention is to identify the factors that have led to
success of ICCAs across a broad array of ecological and socio-cultural conditions.
The proposed project will also support public policy engagement for evidence based discussion on
ways in which the policy framework and implementation mechanisms for wildlife management in
Chitral, KPK can be improved and made more sensitive towards ICCAs.
Effort will also be made to establish a network of ICCAs that can strive to get ICCAs recognized,
develop model collaborative management plan, and get it endorsed by the KPK district government. LEAD Pakistan plans on focusing its proposed intervention on 06 ICCAs in Chitral (03 in
each Tehsil), with the aim of mapping & documenting the same, capacitating & networking their
custodian communities, and having them recognized at both national and international level.
Adil Najam Named Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies
Chairman LEAD Pakistan Board of Governors' and global policy expert Adil Najam has been
named inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, which was endowed by a generous
gift of $25 million from Frederick S. Pardee. Mr. Najam will provide academic, intellectual, and
administrative leadership to the Pardee School and promote excellence in all aspects of the
school’s teaching, research, and outreach missions.
A proud moment! LEAD Pakistan Fellow Rafay Alam named Yale World Fellow
2014
Co Ahmad Rafay Alam, LEAD Pakistan Fellow for Cohort 13, Pakistani environment lawyer, and
founding partner of Saleem Alam & has been named Yale World Fellow 2014 which was announced by Yale University President Peter Salovey. Alam is among 16 World Fellows selected in
Written by : Abbas Mushtaq
Produced by: Communication Unit, LEAD Pakistan
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